Has the Church Become too Much Show and Not Enough Truth? - Encore

Fearless with Cissie Graham Lynch

Billy Graham Evangelistic Association

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Christianity

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

So often, we try to cram everything possible into the short weeks of summer. Our schedules fill up with the busyness of life. But, I wanted to take some time to reshare a few of my Fearless episodes from the “Elephant in the Room” series so that we can keep our focus on some important topics facing the church today.

The first re-air for the summer is from when we looked at some red flags to watch for inside the church and what I believe is the church’s greatest stumbling block.

If you’ve already listened to this episode, I encourage you to share it with your friends and family and start the important discussion of what the church should actually look like.

For more resources and additional episodes visit http://cissiegrahamlynch.com.

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0:00.0	Hey there, happy summer. This summer my team wanted to do something that would help you start real conversations with those in your family and community.
0:09.0	So we're taking another look at one of our episodes from the elephant in the room series all about the church and our
0:16.3	commitment to sharing truth that has the church become too much show and not enough truth.
0:22.6	And I think that's a question that many of us have struggled with,
0:25.5	depending on where we go to church.
0:27.3	Just recently, in the news, we see Carl Lens and his wife
0:30.6	a part of a documentary just about Hill Song and he was one of kind of the first
0:35.9	pastors that I thought was kind of this new mega pastor that became kind of famous from his big church in New York City that unfortunately
0:46.0	lost his church. So those have kind of started many conversations again this
0:50.1	summer. So if you've seen that documentary or are curious about having this
0:54.6	conversation, I encourage you to listen to today's episode of Fearless because
0:59.3	there's so many of you who are new to Fearless and if you've missed this I encourage you to take a
1:04.4	listen but if you've already heard this episode I challenge you to pray about
1:07.8	it send it to somebody in your life that maybe you've been talking about this
1:11.1	topic with and to continue to have these elephant in the room discussions with your friends and family.
1:18.0	So listen again today and enjoy it and let me know what you think.
1:22.0	Hi, I'm Cissy Graham Lynch.
1:26.0	Welcome to Fearless, helping you have a fearless faith in a compromising culture. Welcome back to Fearless. I am here in my office at the Billy Graham
1:48.8	Evangelistic Association. I always love being back in the office here in
1:51.7	Charlotte, North Carolina.
1:54.0	For this series of elephant in the room kicking off this series as I introduced in the last episode,
2:00.1	we're going to talk about what should church look like. Has church become more of a huge Sunday production
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